“Is Man so different from any of these Apes that he must form an order by himself? Or does he differ less from them than they differ from one another, and hence must take his place in the same order with them?”

Source: 1860s, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863), Ch.2, p. 86

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English biologist and comparative anatomist 1825–1895

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